Publications
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Newsletters: a weekly summary of news about Bitcoin and LN development.
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Blog posts: Occasional updates and reference material from the Optech team.
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Podcast Episodes: Audio discussions of our newsletters.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #370
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new release and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #369 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia and Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #369.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #369
This week’s newsletter shares an update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations and links to a new paper about garbled locks for accountable computing contracts. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #368.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368
This week’s newsletter summarizes a draft BIP for block template sharing between full nodes and announces a library that allows trusted delegation of script evaluation (including for features not available in Bitcoin’s native scripting languages). Also included are our regular sections describing recent updates to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #367.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections announcing new release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #366 Recap Podcast
Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #366.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #366
This week’s newsletter announces draft BIPs for Utreexo, summarizes continued discussion about lowering the minimum transaction relay feerate, and describes a proposal to allow nodes to share their block templates to mitigate problems with divergent mempool policies. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects. We also include a correction to last week’s newsletter and a recommendation to readers.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #365 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing to discuss Newsletter #365.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #365
This week’s newsletter summarizes the results of a test of compact block relay prefilling and links to a mempool-based fee estimation library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse and Jesse Posner to discuss Newsletter #364.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364
This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer services, and examines the impact of switching to quantum-resistant signature algorithms on HD wallets, scriptless multisig, and silent payments. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions and answers on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #363 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Davidson Souza to discuss Newsletter #363.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #363
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing updates to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #362 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Josh Doman and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #362.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #362
This week’s newsletter briefly describes a new library allowing output script descriptors to be compressed for use in QR codes. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sanket Kanjalkar, Jonas Nick, Tadge Dryja, Steven Roose, and Brandon Black to discuss Newsletter #361.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used for HTLC relay in LN. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus and listing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma to discuss Newsletter #360.
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